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Idrissa, civil servant, lives in the suburbs of Dakar, Senegal. Due to IMF budgetary restriction measures he loses his job. When his wages dry up, he is forced to live at the expense of his wife. He strives to regain his manly pride.

Eight women, Arab and Jewish, take part in a video workshop hosted by Rona, a young filmmaker. With each camera take, the group dynamic forces the women to challenge their beliefs as they get to know one other.

Magda, a 7-yo bitch formerly used in dogfights, just had her first litter. Her loyalty towards Ian, her master, is upset by a raising and violent maternal instinct that endangers his woman and daughter. Taking his chance to get back into business, Ian channels her ferocity and forces her away from the pups, straight back to the fighting pit.

In Mauritania, a country seemingly bound by tradition and male dominance, three women speak freely about sex, love and money.

An imaginary return of dictator Ceausescu after 20 years of capitalism in his country, Romania, where he finds a new society but also old habits in the country's businessmen.

The Mercy of the jungle is a road movie that deals with wars in Congo through the eyes of two lost soldiers in the jungle by showcasing their struggle, weakness and hope.

A man returns to his home in the Colombian countryside after a long fishing night and discovers that paramilitary forces have killed his two sons and thrown their bodies into the river.

Monique Mbeka Phoba, the director of the film, spent part of her childhood In Congo-Kinshasa, formerly known as Zaire, where witchcraft plays an integral part in people's lives. She then went to live in Belgium where she lost contact with certain specificities of her culture. Nevertheless, she was aware that her parents were still dependent upon this cultural belief system, from which they kept her and her brothers away. But, one day, Monique decided to answer to her questions by undertaking this journey back to her roots, guided by an 84-year old men accused to be a witch from his childhood. Ranging from the daily practices of witchcraft in Congo-Kinshasa to the frank discussions between Monique Mbeka Phoba and the people close to her, the film follows the rhythm of its maker's search.

Brussels 2011. Anna sews Nicolas' suits since several years. In her workshop they speak Greek, in remembrance of the country they have had to run away from during the Colonels' regime. But they did not leave it for the same reason. Tonight Anna's routine will be shattered by a fateful announcement, tonight Nicolas will learn why Anna did not kill him.

Luisa, a 40-year-old singer, and her companion Julien, a guitarist and composer, have had a group together for many years. One day, her father - whom she has not seen since she was a teenager - comes to see her after a concert. The encounter, during which he tells her he is seriously ill, unsettles Luisa. She begins to look differently at the life she leads.

1960 marked the end of the colonial empires across the African continent. France disappeared from the map, leaving behind the CFA Franc, a colonial creation, which is the name of the currency that still circulates in almost all of its former territories south of the Sahara. How does it come, those countries, once they regained their freedom, never denounced this strange legacy? The film delves into a little-known story that started in the 19th century and continues to the present time.

Invalids devastated by war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo make the trek to the capital to make their voices heard, to demand dignity and some kind of compensation.

A village, a family, a little boy who likes to wear dresses, the return of the wolf and everyday life, ordinary, banal. These elements are used to tell of hidden desires.

A recent medical school graduate, Emil Petrescu leaves Romania to take over a retiring doctor's medical practice in the Belgian countryside. During the winter, a meteorite disintegrates in the sky, a phenomenon that will leave an old man mute. The young doctor is called to his aid.

On January 31 1980, in Guatemala, while the civil war between the military dictatorship and the Marxist guerrillas drags on, 32 representatives of Indian peasant associations arrive from each corner of the country and occupy pacifically the Spain embassy to claim their rights. None of them come out of it alive. All are burned live by the military junta in power. Only the ambassador survives. In memory of that massacre, today, Why do humans burn? Takes a critical look at the present.

June 2015, Burundi, thousands gather in the streets of Bujumbura to manifest against Pierre Nkurunziza's third mandate. As I film the first acts of violence and the victims therefrom produced, I become separated from my family. I'm obliged to flee, due to the increasing violence in the country and the risks bought on by making this film. The second half of the story is the search for my children in Burundi and Rwanda. On both sides of the frontier, I meet those who stayed and those who fled. Their stories, often brutal and fragmented, express a huge amount of uncertainty.

Filmmaker Simon Backès investigates an infamous 1978 New York art exhibition called Stolen Art, where an unknown Czech artist named Pavel Novak presented a collection of amazing reproductions of master works by Rembrandt, Sérusier, Malevich, Van Gogh, and Courbet. Soon after its opening, the FBI closed down the show. A rich collector had complained that the copy of Gustave Courbet's "The Calm Sea" on display was in fact his stolen original. Who was Pavel Novak? An artist? A thief? A bit of both? Backès' curiosity is catching, as he visits the paintings listed in the Stolen Art collection's catalog, inside museums and high-security archives all over the world. He pores over these paintings, searching for the artist behind the creation. Is true art illegal? Do paintings lose their beauty once they are privately hoarded and can no longer be appreciated collectively? The questions raised are as intriguing as the answers.

"Mémoire de missionnaires" takes us back to the Belgian colonization of the Congo through the prism of evangelization. The last witnesses of this period tell us about the astonishing and little known fate of those men of the Church, exiled on the edge of the world to preach the gospel. Their testimony give us a different perspective on this period. Those witnesses show a part of the colonial history which is often commented and yet remains unknown. They give us a lucid and critical view on the Christianization of Africa.

Rayna is a Bulgarian prostitute, working in Brussels' Red Light District. One night, she shares a mystical and sexual moment with an African client, who dies shortly after. That night that will haunt her.

The Kivu in Democrat Republic of Congo, a lake in one of the most unstable region in the world, is portrayed by the stories of local fishermen. They live on, and thanks to the lake, they know all his secrets. They tell them, drifting with the flow on their dugout or during a late evening gathering along the lake's banks: two warring countries - Rwanda and DRC, the rumor of a killer fish, a gigantic reserve of methane about to blow up, or old woman's fabulous memories - So many stories about life and death, fishing and legacy, which form a tales' collection and reveals the secret identity of an amazing place.

The invisible routine of the inhabitants of Marrakech inner city, the never-ending ballet of the system's wretches. Everyday they are dozens coming to the Medina's walls, hoping someone will give them some work. They are the invisible workers making the rise of this touristic city possible.